[4.08] Educational WWW sites on a CD-ROM

The High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
(HEASARC) has developed two educational World Wide Web sites.
The High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center provides information
about X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy for middle school to college
readers. It also includes a "Teacher's Corner" with lesson plans
using actual satellite data, as well as other educator resources.
The second site, StarChild, is a general astronomy and space
exploration site geared for elementary schools.

From the start, our intention was to achieve high visibility with
teachers and students. However, given the significant number of users
and institutions which do not have high-speed (or any!) WWW access, we
knew that another way to distribute the information to our target
audience would be required. Our solution has been to create a CD-ROM
version of our sites which will be freely distributed to the
educational community.

There were several factors which have governed the creation of the
CD-ROM, e.g. the need for platform independence. These issues, and our
solutions to them, are presented.

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